Udine moves to OpenOffice, will save 360,000 Euro

16 September 2014:
The City of Udine, in Italy, announced a process that will lead to the installation
of OpenOffice on 900 municipal desktops, saving the city 360,000 Euro.
ZDNet's Raffaele Mastrolonardo has the
details.

100 Million downloads

17 April 2014:
The Apache OpenOffice project is proud to tell you that our software was
downloaded over 100 million times. Join us in
celebrating this big achievement!

Italian region adopts OpenOffice, saves 2 Million Euro

10 October 2013:
The Italian administrative region of Emilia-Romagna announced plans to move to OpenOffice,
saving 2 million euro.

Volunteers, not Amateurs

8 January 2013:
Apache OpenOffice is developed 100% by volunteers. Apache does not pay for developers, for translators, for QA,
for marketing, for UI, for support, etc. Of course, we're happy to accept
donations to the Apache Software Foundation, to
keep our servers runnings and for similar overhead expenses. But our products are developed entirely by
volunteers.

Some users are initially worried by this statement:How can software for free, developed by
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